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- NEOPHYTE: Koplio's Story
-
- Countless years ago evil ruled the realms. Fierce monsters
- roamed the land causing chaos and destruction. People were
- helpless until The Goddess of Light looked down upon the
- world and fused the evil into the Orb of Salumain.
- Thereafter, the world entered an age of peace and
- prosperity.
-
- However, Orb was imperfect and caused its guardian to become
- evil and corrupt. After a great battle, the guardian of the
- orb was defeated by the hero Gorus, who was granted great
- powers by the Goddess of Light. Gorus' armor, sword,
- shield, and helm were distributed to monasteries across the
- world to be kept safe.
-
- A scant handful of years ago, the leader of the Monks,
- Vacmatio, also known as the Grand Malefactor, rose up and
- tried to take control of all of the Artifacts of Gorus.
- With the help of the evil Horde, he nearly succeeded, but
- was defeated and slain by Aliquis the Great of the Empire of
- Light.
-
- Peace returned to the world, at least for a time...
-
- Koplio is a Neophyte Monk left at the Regara Monastery when
- he was six years of age. Now sixteen, Koplio is ready to
- take his sacred vows to guard the precious Armor of Gorus
- from the outside world, thus earning his Sigil of Passage
- into Adulthood.
-
- But all is not well within the monastery. Rumors of the
- reemergence of the Grand Malefactor, Vacmatio, have traveled
- even as far as Regara. Very recently strange rumblings have
- been heard from the forbidden basement of the monastery,
- disused for hundreds of years. But what is worst of all is
- the earthquake which hit the monastery last night. Part of
- the building has collapsed, including the entrance to the
- holy vault where the Armor of Gorus should be safely stored.
-
- Can you, Koplio, manage to solve the mystery of the
- earthquake, and perhaps recover the Armor of Gorus in the
- process? Without it, you can never take your vows. Worse
- yet, if the Armor has fallen into the wrong hands, it might
- mean the end of an era of peace. Beware, young Neophyte.
- The road ahead will be difficult to travel and could mean
- your destruction.
-
- REQUIREMENTS: -------------- - Pentium computer - 8MB of
- ram. - svga card with at least 1MB of video ram. It must
- support 16 bit color in 640x480. - 40MB of free hard drive
- space. - DirectX 5.0 or later. This can be downloaded from
- http://www.microsoft.com or http://www.aliensoft.com
-
- RECOMMENDATIONS: -------------- - Pentium 100MHZ or faster -
- 16MB of ram or more - hardware accelerated PCI video card
- with at least 2MB of memory. - 16 bit windows compatible
- sound card and good speakers.
-
- 1. Controlling Koplio:
-
- You can use the keyboard or joypad to control Koplio. Here
- is a summary
- of commands:
-
- Command Keyboard Joystick
- ------- -------- --------
- Move Arrow keys or Dir-Pad
- Numerical keypad
- Use Magic Alt Button 1
- Attack* Ctrl Button 3
- Interact/Talk Spacebar Button 3
- Run X Button 4
- Inventory I Button 2
- Help F1
- Save F2
- Load F3
- Toggle Sound S
- Toggle Music M
- Exit/Resume ESC
-
- *You can not attack in most areas of the monastery. Sorry.
-
- Press the spacebar (or joystick button 3)to talk to a
- person, to pick up an object, to read a bookshelf or a sign,
- open a chest, or search a barrel. You have to be in front of
- the object or chest, but you only have to be near the person
- to talk. Some special objects can also be picked up by
- pressing the spacebar.
-
- The mouse is used in the inventory screen, in the buy/sell
- screens, and in the alternate interface. You can move the
- sword cursor with the mouse and select items by clicking on
- them. Click in the background to return back to the game.
-
- 2. Help! I'm Stuck!
-
- Here are some helpful tips for finding out what is going on:
-
- Have you talked to all of the monks?
- Have you read all the bookcases?
- Have you explored everywhere? (Really?)
- Have you talked to the Sensei? He's very wise.
- Have you asked your friends?
- Have you emailed neophyte@aliensoft.com for more help?
-
- 3. Known Bugs
-
- - If you are playing MIDI files outside of NEOPHYTE when you
- start the game, our music won't work. - You must have
- NUM-LOCK off to use the numeric keypad to control Koplio. -
- Koplio's Story is designed as a full screen immersive
- standalone program. You may experience difficulties if you
- attempt to ALT-TAB to other programs.
-
- 4. About Alien Software
-
- Alien Software is a radical departure from your typical game
- publishing houses. Elsewhere, you have adults acting like
- teenagers and trying to figure out what you want. Here, we
- ARE teenagers. The art and programming of Neophyte was done
- almost entirely by people from 15 to 21 years of age (OK, we
- had some help from a few adults, but we did all the hard
- stuff).
-
- We can be reached at Alien Software, 9140 Guilford Rd, Suite
- O, Columbia, Maryland, 21046, or e-mail us at
- neophyte@aliensoft.com.
-
- 5. Credits
-
- Programming: ------------
-
- John Corwin Thang Duong Brian Frisvold John Hicks Steve
- Huang Mike Kayser Gregg Miskelly Adam Pino Srinivas Rao
- Brendan Trexler Mike Young
-
- Art: ----
-
- Sven Dixon
-
- Additional Art: ---------------
-
- Kristine Rencs Brian Dugan Josh Budich
-
- World Development: ------------------
-
- Anatoly Brechman Sven Dixon Jerry Frese John Hicks Mike
- Kayser Rich Malinowski Mike Young
-
- Music/Sound Effects: --------------------
-
- Mitch Brink Check out his web page:
- http://www.geocities.com/~mitchb2
-
- Designer: ---------
-
- Mike Young
-
- Additional Design: ------------------
-
- John Corwin Sven Dixon John Hicks
-
- Producer: ---------
-
- Mike Young
-
- Executive Producers: --------------------
-
- Wayne Moore Patrick Huddie
-
- Playtesters: ------------
-
- David Ball Mitch Brink Susan Brown John Colwick Sharon
- Forsman David Golz Timothy Haritun Chris Lingor David
- Personen Erik Seligman Laura Suzuki Yoshiaki Suzuki Daniel
- Walls Dale Walter II
-
- The Voice of Vacmatio: ----------------------
-
- Arthur Adams
-
- Special Thanks To: ------------------
-
- Srinivas Rao Andrew Wiles Microcosm, Inc.
-
- 6. Copyright
-
- NEOPHYTE: The Journey Begins is copyright (C) 1997, Alien
- Software. All rights reserved.
-
-